Science and Covid-19 with Ian Ellison

04/24/20 • 27 min

Today’s guest is Ian Ellison, an Associate Director at Cambridge University on their Sustainability Leadership programme. He believes (and we agree) that comedy is a big part of the solution to the climate crisis. That if you can just make people laugh, you can have their attention and engage people on the complicated topics that underpin it. We speak to Ian about whether or not our resurgence of trust in science during the pandemic will see an invigorated trust in climate science and embracing systems change.

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